
If you decide you would like to join the Fellowship as a member, then please submit a brief self-description of 30 words or less which will be included in the annual membership list sent out with each Pentecost (June) newsletter. The membership list is confidential. It shows the astonishing variety of life circumstances in which people are similarly ‘called’ as you. It enables the members to correspond /email each other and to pray for each other specifically.
If you join as an associate, then you remain anonymous and do not receive the membership list. Either way, I would like your postal address as back up to your email address.
Members and Associate member receive three digital newsletters each year – Advent, Lent and Pentecost. In time it is hoped that each person will feel able to make a written contribution to the newsletter, derived from their own experience. It is what breathes life into it.
Although the FOS is primarily Christian, the newsletter also draws upon the spiritual riches and wisdom of other traditions and cultures from around the world. Insights from philosophy and modern psychology are sometimes referenced. So, primarily Christian but with a universal perspective, we look for the common ground instead of the differences between spiritual traditions. The names and means we use may be different, but our goal is essentially the same.
There are no subscription fees, but it could happen – though rarely – that you are asked for a voluntary donation if extra costs are made. When this happens a full explanation of the purpose of the donation will be given.
Joining the Fellowship doesn’t require a lifelong commitment. People come and go. Some stay a long time. But it’s not about the Fellowship. It’s about one’s daily, deep life-intention.
See Contact for more details and/or if you are thinking about joining.

This path is essentially solitary as it finds no foothold in the places most people live in, either from necessity or choice, or because they have never experienced essential solitude or achieved the capability for detached observation. Such a solitary existence questions society’s values and points to a human authenticity as a point of reference by which society and its institutions may be judged.
Eve Baker
